Tuesday, July 26, 2016

SONA watching narc seller killed by assassins

CALASIAO – A
suspected narcotic pusher was assassinated here as he watched on television the State of the
Nation Address (SONA) of President Rodrigo Duterte.

According to
this burgeoning town's Chief of Police Superintendent Fabiano B. Sudario, Jr., Rechel H. Agpoon, 37 years old, married, and a tricycle driver was shot by
killers riding in tandem.

“He was watching the SONA when he was shot,”
the newly assigned chief of police was overheard speaking to a reporter in a
mobile phone.

President Duterte
spoke last Monday at his first SONA at the Batasang Complex in Quezon City.

Duterte won
the presidency last May 9 with a promised to wage a no-nonsense war against
drug pushers all over the county.

He promised
to eradicate the menace in three to six months upon assumption of office at
noon of June 30.

In a signed
spot police report by Supt. Sudario, it said that at around 6:25 pm last Monday,
the victim was sitting in a makeshift waiting shed located along the
intersection of Barangay Banaoang road and Jose de Venecia Highway in Dagupan
City when the two suspects arrived.

“Then
the back rider alighted and shot the victim at close range. The victim
sustained two gunshot wounds on his head and was brought by the responding
policemen to Pangasinan Provincial Hospital, San Carlos City where he was later
pronounced Dead on Arrival (DOA) by the attending physician,” the report
said.

Sudario said
the killers, who were both clad in a jacket, fled towards an unknown direction.
He said coordination with the nearby police stations had been set for the
apprehension of the suspects.

Agpoon was
listed as one of the drug personalities here.

The chief of
police said the police here still stare at blank wall in finding the killers of
Agpoon.

Meanwhile, another similar mode killing ensued at
Barangay Gabon here when Richard A. Flores- alyas Guilabot or Negro was
liquidated.

Police spot report cited Flores was married, a construction
worker, and resident of Pandayan of the same village here.

“Investigation
disclosed that at around 8:45 am of July 21, 2016, the victim and his two
companions were sitting on the concrete bench in front of the residential house
of Mr. Dennis Gaspar when the suspects arrived and shot the victim several
times. Technical assistance of Scene of the Crime Operatives (SOCO) was sought
to process the incident. They recovered seven empty shells of Caliber .45, two
lead bullets, one deformed slug, two jackets and one fragment”

Sudario said that Flores was listed in the Top 8 drug
personality here.

Spot report said Flores had surrendered to the police
last July 4, 2016 with an undertaking to return his life to normalcy and do away with
illegal drug activities.